#megafish — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #megafish, aggregated by home.social.
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In search of the world’s largest freshwater #fish – the wonderfully weird giants lurking in Earth’s rivers https://theconversation.com/in-search-of-the-worlds-largest-freshwater-fish-the-wonderfully-weird-giants-lurking-in-earths-rivers-207472
"Found on all continents except Antarctica, they are a wonderfully weird bunch of creatures, from colossal #catfish and carp to gargantuan #gars... But #freshwater vertebrate populations have declined over the past five decades at twice the rate experienced by species within terrestrial or marine ecosystems. #Megafish numbers in particular fell by a shocking 94%."